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   by a_c 4y ago

   Elastic search (used to?) use HTTP body as parameters for a GET request. IIRC the HTTP specification doesn't (again, used to?) mandate GET request to have no HTTP body Edit: Example of Elastic search API with GET body, now deprecated
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   by a_c 4y ago

   Non-native english speaker here Why are these openings bad?
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   by a_c 4y ago

   Is it same trend of turning long form content into bite size? Book into blog post into tweets. Documentary into [youtube] videos into tiktok. Or is it just a format change from book into mobile? Genuine question from someone first time hear
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   by a_c 4y ago

   The same can be said about organization. Too much abstraction, managers and teams, is harming performance. Too little abstraction is hard to coordinate. Putting abstraction in front of problem, throwing problem to previously arbitrarily set
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   by a_c 4y ago

   My bad, completely missed the second table. Thanks for pointing it out!
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   by a_c 4y ago

   Actually what the motivation in having price point ending in .99? Why can't I simply price my app at, for instance, 10? I understand there is a pricing psychology in play and I faintly remember it has something to do with accounting bu
7. 337.▲
   by a_c 4y ago

   Unrelated, I fat fingered on a link without noticing. I was confused as to why the content I'm reading is completely unrelated to what I read 30s before. This website is fast.
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   by a_c 4y ago

   These kind of bad UX problem can be easier to rationalize once we understand the money flow. Would you stop using it because of such UX? Would your stopping cause the company to stop procuring SAP? Was the search the selling point in the fi
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   by a_c 4y ago

   I long have the impression that we are building software wrong. Wrong as in not ideal. We are like the personal electronics in the 90s. One gatget for one task, phone, radio, MP3, camera, watch, etc. They all make sense at the time, until t
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I checked the result through https://www.blocked.org.uk/site/http://archive.org?expand=1 So yeah, UK is definitely censoring websites
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    by a_c 4y ago

    When I come into the country in 2021, I wasn't able to visit archive.org on my Giffgaff network. Took me forever to realise it was blocked.
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I would like to challenge the premise of company first, then team, then self. A forest is grown one tree at a time. A company is formed because someone, the founders, thinking for themselves. They want to create a product, solve a problem,
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I'm curious what did people migrate to, and is there any feature disparities?
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    by a_c 4y ago

    Looks like a nice middle ground between no tracking at all and needing all tracking to how well your website perform. Seems no fingerprinting is involved so the website visitor is anonymized. Unlike cookies where we can store whatever we li
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    by a_c 4y ago

    One more angle, when you are starting up, every bucks feel like coming out of your own pocket. When purchasing "enterprise plan", your company already attain certain size and you are spending your company's money, money that
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    by a_c 4y ago

    Enterprise software is more willing to milk money from corporate than to leave money on the table. The amount of money a company is will to pay can be order of magnitudes higher than an enterprise software imagined. Hence SaaS company hire
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I can see gitlab's appeal. I wonder if there is opensource connector that let SaaS company host their application on customer's choice of cloud? Or is there similar project?
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    by a_c 4y ago

    Imo more projects should start paying its author to prioritize their "issues", feature or bug
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I actually find this post inspiring. I've spend my whole life walking without thinking about it. And it wasn't obvious to me at all that I can turn right by pivoting with right leg at all. I mean I intellectual understand I could,
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    by a_c 4y ago

    Can someone give some pointers to how homomorphic encryption is achieved? I know what it is from a high level, but would love to learn more details. What types of operation it support, what kind of encryption is used, etc. Thanks!
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I thought the article is about change is the only constant yada yada hence we should embrace change. How wrong was I. > which is that an insurance company selling directly would have a cost and convenience advantage over those paying bro
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I served both role as PM and engineer. Having high level metrics is great when things are going smooth. You will need to drill down, zoom in into user journey when things don't work as expected. E.g. increased drop-off, 404s, 400s. Ano
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    by a_c 4y ago

    Structure follows strategy. There are various reasons product manager exist but the role doesn't exist unless the team grows to a certain scale. All founders serve as a product manager some point in their start up journey because they
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    by a_c 4y ago

    People are seeing observability as a separate subject from product making. I see it as two side of the same "does this thing work" coin. To a product person, does it work mean are people using the tool to solve their problem. To e
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I'm new to the UK. The sentiment I get is people here in UK are generally less ambitious?
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    by a_c 4y ago

    It's like one day you decided to build a company that needs a website. The first task you come up with is accessibility and i18n. Good luck with that. My heuristics is, are we serving the main audience, are we serving them well, can we
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    by a_c 4y ago

    Tiddlywiki is a real piece of gem. I use it with github saver on a single machine. It works great for me. No server setup, no additional cloud provider since I'm already on github and I think the github saver works on mobile too with
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    by a_c 4y ago

    There is a similar phenomena in product development - thinking too much about metrics and forgetting about intuition and experience
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    by a_c 4y ago

    I am not a tax consultant. Maybe you can leave more profit to the company and have all your spending be reimbursed by your company, in return paying yourself less, hence paying lower local income tax?
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    by a_c 4y ago

    Isn't it happening all the time? Web3, crypto, AI, kubernetes, microservices, docker, server side rendering, SPA, react, graphql, backend in frontend, DevOps, DevSecOps, fullstack, mongodb, new features in mongodb that mimic sql, Restf